Parmy Olson > Quotes

“She never typed her real name into her netbook in case it got key-logged, had no physical hard drive, and would boot up from a tiny microSD card that she could quickly swallow if the police ever came to her door.”
― Parmy Olson, We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency

“The basic premise of transhumanism is that the human race is currently second-rate. With the right scientific discoveries and technology, we might one day evolve beyond our physical and mental limits into a new, more intelligent species. We’ll be smarter and more creative, and we’ll live longer. We might even manage to meld our minds with computers and explore the galaxy.”
― Parmy Olson, Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race That Will Change the World

“My crime is that of outsmarting you, something that you will never forgive me for.”
― Parmy Olson, We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency

“Anonymous was like any other modern-day movement that had become fragmented by the user-generated, crowd-sourced nature of a web-enabled society.”
― Parmy Olson, We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency

“Hassabis would later say that games were like a gym for the mind and chess was the ultimate workout.”
― Parmy Olson, Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race That Will Change the World

“Rumor even had it that she’d stabbed her webcam with a knife one day, just in case someone took over her PC and filmed her unaware.”
― Parmy Olson, We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency

“Opinions on stuff like that are so fluid,” said William, “maybe because we’re young and impressionable. Maybe we’re just honest when we change our mind.”
― Parmy Olson, We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency

“If you have a very large dataset and a very large neural network, success is guaranteed,” Sutskever said at one AI conference.”
― Parmy Olson, Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race That Will Change the World

“The FBI later denied to the New York Times that they “let [the Stratfor] attack happen for the purpose of collecting more evidence,” going on to claim the hackers were already knee-deep in Stratfor’s confidential files on December 6. By then, they added, it was “too late” to stop the attack from happening. Court documents, however, show that the hackers did not access the Stratfor e-mails until around December 14. On December 6, Sup_g was not exactly “knee-deep” in Stratfor files: he had simply found encrypted credit card data that he thought he could crack.”
― Parmy Olson, We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency

“We need to get there before the AI takes over,” he told engineers in 2023, according to his biographer Ashlee Vance. “We want to get there with a maniacal sense of urgency. Maniacal.” Musk believes that with brain implants, humans will be able to prevent a future artificial superintelligence from wiping us out, and so he wants Neuralink to perform surgeries on more than 22,000 people by 2030.”
― Parmy Olson, Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race That Will Change the World

“you wanted to conduct scientific research on a disease like Alzheimer’s, you could go to a university on the East Coast or in Europe. But if you wanted to reverse aging, you went to Silicon Valley.”
― Parmy Olson, Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race That Will Change the World

“I think one reason why chess has survived so successfully over generations is because the knight and bishop are perfectly balanced,” Hassabis told Thiel as canapés were being passed around. “I think that causes all the creative asymmetric tension.”
― Parmy Olson, Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race That Will Change the World

“As he looked around the room at the other chess geniuses hunched over their boards, neurons churning, it dawned on him that this whole tournament was a waste of brainpower.”
― Parmy Olson, Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race That Will Change the World

“But the company still makes ethically tone-deaf decisions. In May of that year”
― Parmy Olson, Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT and the Race That Will Change the World

“The Bitcoins bought virtual prepaid cards from Visa, with the help of fake names, addresses, personal details, and occupations at fake companies, generated in seconds on the website fakenamegenerator.com. As long as the contact address matched the billing address, no online store would question its authenticity.”
― Parmy Olson, We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency

“kept all passwords in a file on an encrypted SD card, with one character in each swapped around. Only he knew which characters were swapped.”
― Parmy Olson, We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency

“If you throw a smartphone at a group of people sitting inside the exclusive Battery Club in San Francisco, it’ll hit at least three trying to save the world.”
― Parmy Olson, Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race That Will Change the World

“He also began to store his operating systems on a microSD card inside his encrypted MP3 player: a 32 GB SanDisk microSD, inside an 8 GB SanDisk MP3, inside an encrypted volume. Opening it now required a password and several key files, which were five MP3 songs out of thousands on his player. He had learned this entire setup from Kayla. Despite”
― Parmy Olson, We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency

“The name 2600 came from the discovery in the 1960s that a plastic toy whistle found inside certain boxes of Cap’n Crunch cereal in the United States created the exact 2,600 hertz tone that led a telephone switch to think a call was over. It was how early hackers of the 1980s, known as phone phreaks, subverted telephone systems to their desires.”
― Parmy Olson, We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency

“Leiderman, his lawyer, scrambled to get Royal a lesser sentence, perhaps some kind of house arrest so he could continue working and going to school. He was frustrated with the law on this matter. “We’re over-criminalizing childish mischief,” he said. “A twelve-year-old with moderate knowledge of computers could have signed up for a VPN and used this SQL tool Havij and, with the instructions he had, done this attack. [Royal] has lived an exemplary life, and gets what he did. We don’t need to be locking people like that up.”
― Parmy Olson, We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency

“My brother. Are you ready?” “Yes,” the other replied. “You realize I’m going to use your computer to hack pm.gov.tn?” “OK,” the main replied. “Tell me what to”
― Parmy Olson, We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency

“Computers aren’t our intelligence. Buy a book or two and learn it yourself.”
― Parmy Olson, We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency

“You cannot arrest an idea, - Topiary”
― Parmy Olson, We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency

“As his travels drew to a close, Altman started an early-stage investment firm called Hydrazine Capital to make financial bets on start-ups, from life sciences to education software companies. He drew on his connections with some of Silicon Valley’s most powerful financiers.”
― Parmy Olson, Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT and the Race That Will Change the World